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Friday, October 27, 2017

Cisco and Google Cloud
has announced a partnership to deliver a hybrid cloud solution that helps
customers maximize their investments across cloud and on-premises environments.
The companies will provide a unique and open hybrid cloud offering that enables
applications and services to be deployed, managed and secured across
on-premises environments and Google Cloud Platform. The solution delivers cloud
speed and scale, with enterprise-class security.

The offering provides
enterprises with a way to run, secure and monitor workloads, thus enabling them
to optimize their existing investments, plan their cloud migration at their own
pace and avoid vendor lock in. Companies can now develop new applications in
the cloud or on premises, consistently using the same developer tools, run
time, and production environment.

"Our partnership
with Google gives our customers the very best cloud has to offer— agility and
scale, coupled with enterprise-class security and support," said Chuck
Robbins, chief executive officer, Cisco. "We share a common vision of a
hybrid cloud world that delivers the speed of innovation in an open and secure
environment to bring the right solutions to our customers."

"This joint
solution from Google and Cisco facilitates an easy and incremental approach to
tapping the benefits of the Cloud. This is what we hear customers asking
for," said Diane Greene, CEO, Google Cloud.

Dalberg Advisors is
partnering with the Government
of Andhra Pradesh (AP), Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and the Confederation of Indian Industry (CII) to organize an AgTech Pitch Competition #SmartFarming4AP.

The Pitch Competition is to
seek out innovators developing solutions, which could solve the challenges
faced by the small and marginal farmers. The winners will
get an opportunity to sign an MoU with the Government of AP to
roll out their solution in the State. Dalberg Advisors is helping
curate this competition, and in addition has announced it will provide
mentoring support to the winners, to help sharpen their
business plans and go-to-market strategies that drive inclusive transformation.

The final round of the
competition will be held during the AP AgTech Summit 2017:Progressive
Farmer, Smart Farmingin Visakhapatnam on November 15-17, 2017. More than 1500 delegates are expected to attend the
event, including global leaders, business
heads, start-up founders, policymakers, and technology experts. The
Summit will be led by the Chief Minister of
Andhra Pradesh, N. Chandrababu Naidu.
The co-chair and trustee of the Bill & Melinda Gates
Foundation, Bill Gates, will also be present at the event.

Varad Pande, Partner, Dalberg
Advisors, commented on the initiative, “We are delighted to partner with the
Government of Andhra Pradesh, the Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation and CII
on this event. At Dalberg, we firmly believe that if we are serious about inclusive
economic transformation, we have to solve the problems of the small and
marginal farmer. This requires us to creatively bring together technology,
policy, and business. The #SmartFarming4AP Pitch Competition aims to do exactly
this – by catalyzing the next frontiers of AgTech innovation.”

Innovators are invited that
are working on the following themes: Technology-enabled
Rural Advisory Services (RAS); Technology-enabled market linkages; Digital
Financial Services for agriculture; Data mining for agriculture.

Indian
Railways (IR) is working on a proposal to create a suburban railway network for
Bengaluru, like the one in Mumbai, to decongest the city and link it to the
airport, Railway Minister Piyush Goyal said.

Goyal
said the idea was suggested to him before he took over as the railway minister
by senior BJP leader Ananth Kumar who told him that he had been pushing for a
suburban rail service for the Indian IT capital since 1996.

He said
that during a review meeting of South Western Railway on September 18, he asked
the officials to study the city for a rail network and come up with a
preliminary project report for an elevated network.

"And
possibly also have a road on top of the rail to connect the airport to places
of work in the city," Goyal said speaking at the International Conference
on Green Initiatives and Railway Electrification here.

The
minister said he gave the SW Railways 30 days' time to come up with a plan but
on September 20, when he was in the city again, he was given a document listing
out initial action plans on the project to be executed within 28 days.

On
September 26, Goyal said the SW railway construction wing of Bengaluru awarded
the consultancy to the Rail India Technical and Economic Services (RITES), a
government of India initiative, for a conceptual planning and study of the
proposal.

By
October 1, the minister said he was presented with a rough assessment on the
availability of land for commercial use including the relocation requirements.

"They
used google to locate and prepare the plan where land is available because the
scheme has to be self-financed. Then they identified various sections which
need to be elevated and also pointed out which were to be done on ground,"
he said.

By
October 18, the RITES had already finalised an initial conceptual plan with
drawings of how the project will look like, where the routes will be and with
height and elevation details, the minister said.

"So
in a months' time, we have a proposal upon which the Indian Railways can now
start deliberating.

"I
am sharing this to reflect the new confidence with which the Indian Railways is
working with the commitment to time-bound delivery of services," said
Goyal.

Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers (SIAM) –apex body of automobile manufacturers – has written to
Karnataka Govt. to make amendments to the act prohibiting registration of
two-wheelers with less than 100 cc engine capacity, with a pillion seat.

SIAM also highlighted the fact that, as
per Motor Vehicle Act (MVA), powers have been given to Central Government to
make rules under the Central Motor Vehicle Rule (CMVR) inter-alia related to
construction of motor vehicles. Hence, as per these rules, the motor vehicles
are tested at one of the notified test agencies of Government of India for
certifying compliance to all emission and safety regulations notified by
Government of India from time to time.

Commenting on this, Sugato Sen,
Deputy Director General, SIAM, said, “This is the first time in the
country that such ban has been imposed. There
are no such provisions in the Central Motor Vehicles Act either. There
are several
popular models of motorcycles that are just below 100 cc. Many of them are 99
cc. SIAM has approach the state government seeking a revision of this provision
of the motor vehicles rules”.

The
recommendations comes in the wake of Karnataka government banning riding
pillion on two-wheelers with engine capacity of less than 100 CC, giving effect
to a 2015 court order. The transport department also banned registration
of such vehicles.

The Society of Indian Automobile
Manufacturers (SIAM) is a not-for-profit apex national body representing all
major vehicle and vehicular engine manufacturers in India. SIAM works towards
supporting sustainable development of the Indian Automobile Industry with the
vision that India emerges as the destination of choice in the world for design
and manufacture of automobiles. It also works towards facilitating enhancement
of the competitiveness of the Indian Automobile Industry, reducing cost of
vehicles, increasing productivity and achieving global standards of quality.

From its PentahoWorld 2017 user conference, Hitachi Vantara, a wholly-owned subsidiary of
Hitachi Ltd., has unveiled the next generation of its Pentaho data integration and analytics platform
software. Pentaho 8.0 is enhanced and provides support for Spark and Kafka to
improve data and stream processing, plus the ability to easily match compute
resources with business demand in real time. The new release is designed to
help Hitachi’s customers extract greater value from their data to gain a
competitive advantage and accelerate their digital transformation journeys.

According to independent research firm IDC, the global
datasphere will grow to 163 zetabytes by 2025 – 10 times faster than the amount
of data generated in 2016. The firm also forecasts that more than a quarter of
that data will be real-time in nature, with IoT data making up more than
95-percent of it.

With its Pentaho 8.0 release, Hitachi Vantara
helps customers to better prepare their businesses to address this real-time
data deluge by optimizing and modernizing their data analytics pipelines and
improving the productivity of their existing teams. New enhancements to the
Pentaho 8.0 platform allow users to:

Improve Connectivity to Streaming
Data Sources: With data moving faster, it’s
critical to process it as it happens and react immediately if necessary. New
capabilities in Pentaho 8.0 include:

oConnect to Kafka Streams: Kafka is a
very popular publish/subscribe messaging system that handles large data volumes
that are common in today’s big data and IoT environments. Pentaho 8.0 now
enables real-time processing with specialized steps that connect Pentaho Data
Integration (PDI) to Kafka.

oBig data security with Knox: Building
on its existing enterprise-level security for Cloudera and Hortonworks, Pentaho
8.0 now adds support for the Knox Gateway used for authenticating users to
Hadoop services.

Optimize Processing Resources: Every organization has constrained data processing resources
that it wants to use intelligently, guaranteeing high availability even when
demand for computation resources are high. To support this, Pentaho 8.0
provides:

Worker nodes to scale out enterprise
workloads:
IT managers can now easily bring up additional nodes and spread
simultaneous workloads across all available computation resources to
match capacity with demand. This matching provides elasticity and
portability between cloud and on-premises environments resulting in
faster and more efficient processing for end users.

Adaptive execution enhancements: First introduced
in Pentaho 7.1, Pentaho’s adaptive execution allows users to match
workloads with the most appropriate processing engine, without having to
rewrite any data integration logic. Now, Pentaho 8.0 makes adaptive
execution easier to set up, use and secure. The functionality is also now
available on Hortonworks.

Native support for Avro and Parquet: Pentaho 8.0
makes it easy to read and write to these popular big data file formats
and process with Spark using Pentaho’s visual editing tools.

Boost Team Productivity: Pentaho 8.0 also
comes with several new features to help increase productivity across the
data pipeline. These include granular filters for preparing data, improved
repository usability and easier application auditing.

“On the path to digital transformation, enterprises must fully
exploit all the data available to them. This requires connecting traditional
data silos and integrating their operational and information technologies to
build modern analytics data pipelines that can accommodate a more connected,
open and fluid world of data,” said Donna Prlich, chief product officer for
Pentaho software at Hitachi Vantara. “Pentaho 8.0 provides enterprise scale and
faster processing in anticipation of future data challenges to better support
Hitachi’s customers on their digital journeys.”

Hitachi Vantara’s Pentaho 8.0 software will be generally
available in November.

NXP India, a world leader in secure connectivity solutions for
embedded applications, recently inaugurated its patent wall to recognize the
significant contributions of inventors and augment the spirit of innovation at
NXP India. The wall highlights technological achievements of innovators,
motivating them to tread the path of invention-led careers. Benny Chang
Global VP of R&D, BL AMP, BU Automotive and Lars Reger SVP
& CTO, BU Automotive brought up the curtain on the Patent Wall
that NXP engineers were aspiring for years.

“India is
the hub of automotive innovation and this bright wall at NXP Noida with more
than 450 US patents is but a grand showcase of every time we have led that
innovation,” said Benny Chang.

“Innovation
is the salt of our organization. I hope that soon these walls are too small for
all of the inventions coming from our team,” added Lars Reger.

The wall showcases more than 450 US Patents for
innovations, which are granted by United States Patent and Trademark Office (US
PTO), an agency in the U.S. Department of Commerce that issues patents to
inventors and businesses for their inventions, and trademark registration for
product and intellectual property identification. The
showcased patents cover innovations from a wide spectrum of applications,
such as Automotive Advanced Driver Assistance Systems (ADAS) using Radar and
Vision technology and cutting edge networking and security applications. The
Patents focus on next generation technologies and architectures including
integrated circuits, extremely low power designs, area efficient circuit
design, high density dual bit storage circuits, tamper detect power supplies,
advanced techniques for design for Test, traffic schedulers for wireless
applications and signal processing for radar applications, among others.

Sanjay Gupta, Vice President & India Country Manager, NXP
India said, “NXP
India has incessantly motivated and transformed young engineers into a fierce
technology force and vibrant innovators. In that spirit, this Patent
Wall is a source of inspiration for the next generation of innovators and
an encouragement to innovation within our organization.”

The Phase 1 of NXP India Patent Wall was launched in Noida
and soon plans to complete the next Phase inaugurations in Bangalore
and Hyderabad.

Thursday, October 26, 2017

The Royal Bank of Scotland (RBS), a subsidiary of the
RBS Group, today announced the winners of the RBS ‘Earth Heroes’ Awards for
2017. Eight individuals/institutions from the field of wildlife and
conservation, who have demonstrated exemplary work on the ground, were chosen
by an independent jury, for the RBS Earth Heroes Award. The jury panel,
comprising of active wildlife enthusiasts, environmentalists and
conservationists, reviewed nominations received from across the country.

Pankaj Phatarphod, Managing Director Country Head of
Services; India Chairperson – RBS Foundation India, said, “Earth Heroes Awards’ journey has truly been
enriching for us at RBS, by giving us an opportunity to honour and
encourage individuals and organizations who work towards
environmental sustainability. This year as well, we have been fortunate enough
to receive numerous nominations of such high calibre and have the privilege to
celebrate and honour the best in the field for their respective efforts. This
year’s awardees’ demonstrate how sheer dedication for their respective field
can help make a positive change to the environment. We hope to serve as a
source of inspiration for the youth of India, by encouraging the exemplary work
done by the Earth Heroes”

N Sunil Kumar, Head of Sustainability, India, Royal
Bank of Scotland and Director, RBS Foundation India, said, "The unsung heroes of the country who
dedicate their lives, go beyond the call of duty to conserve our wild
habitats deserve to be celebrated. Forest carbon sink
and biodiversity is an important Nationally Determined Contribution (NDC)
committed by India at the UN Climate platform (COP 21 of UNFCCC). The
Earth Heroes work is a direct contribution to this NDC. I am honoured to
acknowledge their efforts towards conservation of our wildlife and
habitats. It is indeed a privilege for us to be hosting these
awards each year.”

The seventh edition of RBS Earth Heroes
Awards saw Sumitra Mahajan, hand over award citations and cash prizes to the
winners, at the awards ceremony in New Delhi.

The winners of the 2017 RBS ‘Earth Heroes’
Awards are:

No.

Winner

Award category

1

Jadav Payeng

RBS Earth Hero’ Award

2

Valmiki Tiger Reserve

RBS Earth Guardian’ Award

3

Mr. Khenrab Phuntsog and Mr. Smanla
Tsering

RBS ‘Save The Species’ Award

4

Mr. Atul Deokar

RBS ‘Save The Species’ Award

5

Mr. Rohan Chakravarty

RBS Inspire’ Award

6

Dr. Shekhar Niraj

RBS Green Warrior’ Award

7

Mr. Ipra Mekola

RBS Green Warrior’ Award

8

Mr. Chandrakant Naik

RBS Green Warrior’ Award

RBS ‘Earth Hero’ Award (Felicitation)

This award recognizes extraordinary
achievements of an individual who has worked a life time in conservation of
wildlife, natural resource management, and environment and has influenced
policy.

The RBS ‘Earth Hero’ Award was
conferred upon Jadav Payeng for his outstanding achievements
and his passionate engagement in environment and wildlife conservation.

Jadav Payeng, popularly known as the
‘Forest Man of India’ is one of the most inspiring stories of our time. 31
years ago, the Assam Forest Department started out a project to plant life on
the tough terrain of the eroded island covered with sand and silt. Jadav Payeng
was a part of the project and continued even after the project ended. Shri
Payeng, through his continuous effort over decades, succeeded in turning a
sandbar of the river Brahmaputra into a forest reserve by planting trees. The
forest, called the ‘Molai’ forest after him is located near Kokilamukh of
Jorhat, Assam, India, and encompasses an area of about 1,360 hectares.

Amongst several other esteemed
recognitions and awards, ‘The Forest Man of India’ was also a recipient of RBS
‘Green Warrior’ Award in 2013. Shri Payeng was honoured with the fourth highest
civilian award in India, the ‘Padma Shri’, in 2015.

Investing in real-estate, building a home in the hills or by the
beach to holiday with family, or just making a savvy investment – there may be
many reasons for you to have purchased a second home in Pondicherry, Coorg and
Goa. But does this home stay locked and unused except for the few days in a
year when children are able to take leave and the whole family can holiday together?
Are you unable to put it on rent for fear of not being able to manage and
oversee the maintenance from a different city? Are you not receiving expected
returns from your investment? If any of these issues sound familiar, you are
not alone. All across the country, in India's favourite holiday destinations,
there is an abundance of empty, unutilized "holiday homes" -
second-homes that owners are able to visit only a couple of times a year.

One of the major reasons for this is the lack of a trusted maintenance
and managing partner. When you consider visiting your holiday home, you also
have to devote a couple of days for cleaning and setting the place up. Further,
since maintenance and plumbing issues usually go undiscovered in an unused
home, you have to be ready for a few surprises.

Help is now here in the form of OYO Home. This is the latest
initiative from OYO – India’s largest hospitality-company with a mission to
create beautiful, high-quality living spaces.OYO
has built technology led capabilities of managing infrastructure quality,
delivering great guest experience and meeting owner expectations – which it is
now employing to unlock homes across the country.

In 5 of the most popular holiday destinations across India –
Pondicherry, Coorg , Goa, Nainital, and Shimla – OYO has unlocked over 300
homes to 15,000 guests. The company takes care of maintenance,
upgradation and repair, housekeeping, revenue-management and marketing. It has
a dedicated representative called OYO Captain who visits the property regularly
for maintenance and upkeep, as well as checking in the guests and responding to
their needs. OYO also works with home
owners to upcycle their current space and establish functional aesthetics to
make the homes beautiful and comfortable. Home-owners receive
higher yields from OYO Home's revenue share model as compared to rentals.

Antonio
Pinto, owner of a home in Goa, stays in Germany. According to him, “I live outside the country 6 months of the
year so my home in Goa stays locked for a large part of the year. It’s not easy
taking care of the property especially since regular maintenance and upkeep
could not happen. So when this opportunity came up, I thought to give the OYO
folks a chance. This has been one of the best decisions – not only does OYO
takes great care of the property but they also did a good job with refurbishing
the interiors to give it a great, heritage look. All this, while I sit back and
relax here in Germany and get a monthly deposit in my account.”

Owners like the professional maintenance of their home and the
enhanced yield from their asset. They love
the trust and one-stop-shop service that comes with partnering with OYO. Owners
are happy that their locked homes are being cleaned and furnished, regularly
maintained and are now being utilised. An added benefit is the assurance that
they can visit their holiday home anytime and without prior planning – since
OYO ensures the home is clean and functional at all times.

Amar Dhamane from Kolhapur says, “I am
delighted to partner with OYO. The team took charge of managing and beautifying
interiors, space, and design, something we do not have expertise in. Our Goa
property now looks fantastic and has been fetching handsome returns in terms of
business.”

Premium Men’s innerwear company, VIP Clothing Ltd embarked on a
new journey with the launch of VIP Regal and Frenchie Casuals designed to
cater to the sensibilities of the Modern Indian man. The listed company will remain focused on offline market to boost its sales in the country. Presently only 1 percent of its sales comes from online market players like Flipkart and Amazon.

Both collections cater to
2 unique consumer segments. VIP regal is a contemporary classic brand, crafted
for the sophisticated taste whereas Frenchie Casuals targets the fashion
oriented youth. The collections are designed keeping ‘FIT’ as the most
important factor while retaining its aesthetic appeal and was unveiled
cricketer and currently a cricket commentator also known as ‘Very Very Special’
– for his initials V.V.S and splendid performance during his tenure, Yogesh
Tiwari, CEO, VIP Clothing Limited and Sunil Pathare – CMD, VIP Clothing Limited
along with the attendance of more than 450 distributors of VIP clothing ltd. The company official says that south India contributes to almost 49% of the market and would like it to grow further over the years.

Bangalore is one of the most vital consumer market for VIP. The
event was held at Sheraton Grand, Bangalore commenced with an interactive
session with the distributors followed by a speech by the CMD of the company
and finally unveiling of the two premium collection exclusively for the
Bangalore market.

“VIP Clothing Ltd is constantly developing products to suit the
needs of the modern consumers and the launch of the 2 new collections, VIP
Regal and Frenchie Casuals is going to define the brands direction in the
coming years. We are bringing international designs and fits while reviving the
tone of the brand. As Bangalore being one of the most important market for us,
we are launching our new collections exclusively in this regions and aims to
strategically maximize the outreach at PAN India level in the days to come. The
launch embarks the beginning of a new era in the company’s life,” said Yogesh Tiwari, CEO, VIP
Clothing Ltd.

VIP as a company has been at the edge of excellence when it
comes to fit, fabric and quality factors. Both our collections are refreshing
in terms of design and accustomed to the modernized feel. We have infused
different flavors to cater to varied sensibilities of modern man who is not
just fashion conscious but also comfort savvy. We hope our customers will love
our new offerings like they have always loved our previous ones,” said Sunil Pathare, CMD, VIP
Clothing Ltd.

‘It’s a pleasure for me to be associated with VIP as this is one
of those time-travelled brands I have grown up with and still have some of the
promotional jingles fresh in my mind. It’s an honorable gesture to be a part of
the timeline of such a renowned and heritage brand’, said V.V.S. Laxman, Cricket
Commentator and former Indian Cricketer.

RICS announced that Sachin Sandhir, Global MD – Emerging
Business and Managing Director for RICS in South Asia is stepping down to
pursue other opportunities. Nitin Kapoor, Associate Director, RICS South
Asia will take responsibility for the RICS professional body on an interim
basis. Ashwani Awasthi, Chief Operating Officer will lead operations at
RICS School of Built Environment (RICS SBE).

Under Sachin’s leadership, RICS has become a respected
standard-setting, qualifications and assurance body in India. In 2013,
Sachin was instrumental in RICS establishing its historic first educational
institution in partnership with Amity University. Today, RICS has offices
in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru and RICS SBE has campuses in Noida and Mumbai with
combined staff strength of over 150.

India is a priority market for RICS in its vision of being a
global professional body fit for the 21st century. We are committed to
expanding the footprint of RICS qualified professionals in India and embedding
our standards via government policies, employers and end users.

Sachin will be leaving his role in January 2018 and will assist
management in smooth transition. RICS has commenced the process for
seeking a new Managing Director for its South Asia Region.

Will Myles, Regional Managing Director - Asia
Pacific, RICS said, “Sachin
has been instrumental in building and leading a thriving and successful
organization for RICS in South Asia. He leaves behind a strong team, which is
well positioned to continue to serve the needs of stakeholders in India. We
thank Sachin for his contribution and wish him all the best.”

Reflecting on the announcement, Sachin Sandhir said, “I am proud to have created a legacy
in India by building a profession that will help the country address its built
environment and skills challenges and raise standards in the sector. At
this time, having witnessed the first students joining the new Mumbai campus of
RICS SBE, the time has come for me to look to my next challenge. I am confident
that the profession is in safe hands for the future.”

Toyota Kirloskar Motor (TKM) talents
have won 3rd and 6th position at the
internationally renowned 44th World Skills Competition that was
held from October 15 to 18 at Abu Dhabi. Also called as the ‘Skill
Olympics’, the coveted event is one of the most prestigious forums recognizing
excellence in vocational education and skills. All three contestants who
represented TKM in the 44th World
Skill 2017 held in Abu Dhabi during Oct ’17 were trained at
Toyota Technical Training Institute. While Kiran bagged the bronze medal in the
Prototype Modelling Skill, H Varun and T A Anand Kumar, were ranked sixth
amongst 39 participants from across the globe in the Mechatronics Skill
category.

This year, the competition saw
participation from more than 1300 competitors from 59 countries challenging
each other in 51 skill categories. India took part in 26 categories winning 2
Medals (silver in patisseries and bronze in prototype) and 9 Medallions of
excellence in the respective categories. The team which consisted of 28
talented young minds showcased the best ever performance by India since the
country began to take part in the competition in 2007. The participants were selected
through a nationwide screening process under the guidance of National Skill
Development Council (NSDC).

Initiated in 1950, The World Skills
Competition is the global hub for skills excellence and development through
international cooperation and development between industry, government,
organizations and institutions. The competitors are all under the age of
22 years (except for four skills that have the age limit of 25). It is
considered to be the global meeting place for government, education, industry
and association leaders to discuss relevant and important issues related to
skills management.

Commenting on the occasion, Sailesh
Shetty, Vice President (HR) Toyota Kirloskar Motor said, “We at Toyota are
honored that contestants who have been trained at TTTI are making the nation
proud at an international platform. The young dynamic talents from rural
Karnataka have time and again made their mark at the World Skill Contest under
the rigorous training from TTTI. Toyota’s skill development initiatives are aimed at contributing to
Honorable Prime Minister’s ‘Skill India’ mission by bridging the gap between
India’s rapidly growing industrial sector and availability of highly skilled
workforce to match up with ever changing auto industry. . We further look
forward to contributing to India by passing our global manufacturing skills to
budding talents across the nation”

As a part of its
commitment towards developing world class skilled workforce for the emerging
Indian Auto Industry, Toyota in 2007 established the Toyota Technical Training
Institute (TTTI) which offers a three year rigorous full-time training in –
Automobile Assembly, Automobile Paint, Automobile Weld and Mechatronics (a
combination of mechanical and industrial electronics) to financially challenged
students hailing from Below Poverty Line (BPL) families from across Karnataka.
This institute exclusively emphasizes on over all development of the trainees
as per industry requirements & towards “Perfecting people” and there by
contributing young multi skilled, energetic, ideal students to the nation.
Training Curriculum is a unique blend which focuses on the holistic development
of Knowledge (16%), Skill (34%), Body and Mind (50%) of the students. Last year
Toyota’s TTTI institute accomplished a key milestone of being selected for
“Manufacturing Skill Transfer Promotion Programme” under the MoC signed by
Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry, Government of Japan (METI) and
Ministry of Skill Development and Entrepreneurship Government of India (MSDE).

The company has been tirelessly working
towards enhancing the employability quotient in the automobile manufacturing
industry in India by promoting unique skill development:

·Toyota Technical Training
Institute (TTTI) offers
a three year rigorous full-time training in – Automobile Assembly, Automobile
Paint, Automobile Weld and Mechatronics (a combination of mechanical and
industrial electronics) TTTI has also been selected as a part of this
partnership between Japan and India for the “Manufacturing Skill Transfer
Promotion Programme’’

·Gurukul is a well-equipped
learning center at TKM imparts diverse training to employees at all levels
which helps them to improve their abilities and thoroughly fulfill their roles.
Everyone who works in Toyota experiences 70% of their development through the
job itself; and the experience serves as a driving force in developing the next
generation

·Toyota Technical
Education Program (T-TEP) provides technical know-how training to ITI students across
India along with providing hands on real time experience within Toyota
dealerships

·Toyota Tantrajna is a unique skill
development project initiated in association with the Automotive Skills
Development Council (ASDC). A comprehensive year and a month plus
[Program duration - 13.5 months] training module consists of an induction and
fundamental skill training, On the Job development and class room training and
trade knowledge training [including Language - English speaking skills,
Computer soft skills, Interview etiquettes, etc.,]. After completion of
course evaluation and certification by ASDC, TKM synergizes to connect the
trainees with prospective employers through “Job Fair”. Toyota provides an
attractive stipend, free commutation and canteen facility for the trainees
during the training period.

·Toyota Apprentice Scheme
(TAS) – Under
TAS, TKM has trained over 12,000 Apprentice Members (ITI, Diploma
and Engineer) since 2002, which makes it one of the largest sources of
providing such manpower to the industry

·National Sales Skills
Contest –
Launched in 2014, National Sales Skill Contest is an initiative that provides
Toyota’s dealer sales & service personnel to showcase their skill levels
with a view to identify gaps and improvise. Held at three levels – across
dealership, regional and national levels, the contestants are evaluated on
various parameters such as knowledge, process demonstration, soft skills and
role plays among others. Continuous training skills are imparted to hone the
dealer personnel skill sets to meet the growing expectations and deliver
Toyota’s best-of-all Quality, Durability & Reliability for ultimate
customer delight